Where innovation, creativity, and optimism come together in the pursuit of peace. The American Friends of the Peres Institute for Peace was created to support the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation in Israel. The Peres Center is Israel’s leading non-profit, non-political, non-governmental organization focused on developing and implementing unique and cutting-edge peacebuilding programs in Innovation, Peace Education, Medicine, Business, and Environment, reaching tens of thousands of participants over the last 20 years. Founded in 1996 by the late Ninth President of Israel and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Shimon Peres, the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation aims to realize his vision for a prosperous Israel within a peaceful Middle East.